How do you have your release plugin/scm plugin configured, Fabrizio, for that to work from git? I saw that various things had changed to make that possible due to a number of complaints but haven't tried them out.
Also, does that work for you from Windows? And if so, from paths with spaces in them? On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:46:49 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> That's a decent explanation, except that it's not called "verify" but >>> "prepare" and it pollutes /trunk when fails (POM has been modified and >>> temp >>> files created) requiring manual cleanup. >> >> >> > > Sorry for the late response... > > >> Couldn't agree more. I tried to convince Jason and the whole crew many >> times that it's a bad idea but I failed. >> >> I can't count the number of times that my release process failed for some >> reason (bad connection, stash needed, etc...) and I found myself forced to >> increment my product version just to please Maven. Very irritating. >> > > ... because you don'k know the release plugin. With a bit of configuration > and Git or Mercurial it doesn't pollute *anything*. My standard releases are > totally performed on the local disk in an atomic fashion (both the pushes to > Git/Mercurial and the deployment of artifacts). Only at the end, when > everything went fine, the stuff get published. If there has been an error, > nothing goes out of my computer (and can be thrown away, then a fix is > applied and the release is retried). > > With subversion, unfortunately, it's impossible to prevent a commit from > going out immediately, and this happens during the process. But - apart from > the fact that Subversion is an old fashion to do things - mvn > release:rollback resets everything as it were before the release, with a > compensating commit. No version number is lost. Because of a bug, you only > have to manually delete the tag. > > > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > [email protected] > http://tidalwave.it - http://fabriziogiudici.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
